Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides, said Nkrumah, shoving the Algerian onto a plane, all of Ghana was being trained to be polite to the delegates. Radio Ghana had for months been broadcasting a daily indoctrination program entitled Service with a Smile, and the city's 800 taxi drivers had been sent to school for an intensive two-week course in basic French and elementary courtesy. The cabbies have even been ordered to make sure they stick to the proper attire: black trousers, white shirts and black ties...
...wheel does not jabber, there is no traffic to sit through, tips are often forbidden and the view is exhilarating. This is a taxi? In many parts of the U.S., it is−an air taxi, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Air taxis link the 600 cities served by scheduled airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk...
Specializing in Newsmen. There are almost as many jobs for air taxis as there are planes. During the Florida season, Chalk's Flying Service of Miami ferries as many as 5,000 vacationers a month to the Bahamas, often runs 18 flights a day. Chicago's Executive Airlines specializes in flying newsmen to the scene of riots and disasters, also frequently carries such luminaries as Bob Hope, Barry Goldwater and Jackie Kennedy. Every weekday a Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school...
...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
Paris traffic being what it is, Correspondent Judson Gooding found the bicycle the best bet for skimming to and from interviews, far speedier than taxis or the Metro. One of his colleagues had to resort to a more elaborate approach. Since the press was not welcome at the funeral of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Paris Bureau's Robert Smith dressed in black, hired a black-capped chauffeur and a black limousine and set out to cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers...